Up to 10 inches of rain and power outage for 400,000 complicate recovery from earlier hurricane

RALEIGH, N.C.—Nearly a month after Hurricane Florence made landfall in coastal North Carolina, Thursday’s arrival of Michael stalled what has already been a plodding recovery.

The remnants of Hurricane Michael dumped as much as 10 inches of rain Thursday in central North Carolina and created gusts as high as 70 miles per hour. More than 350 roads were closed in the state, mostly from downed trees and power lines.

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